Despite being about 10 years away from possibly crapping his pants, Robert De Niro has become a father again at the ripe old age of 68. Being around to see your child graduate high school is so overrated. The Daily Mail says:
The Oscar-winner and wife Grace Hightower De Niro, 56, welcomed their daughter through a surrogate mother, Entertainment Tonight reports.
The baby, whom they’ve named Helen Grace Hightower, weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces.They also have a 13-year-old son, Elliot.
De Niro has four other children – daughter Drena, 40, and son Raphael, 35, with former wife Diahnne Abbott, as well as 16-year-old twin sons Julian and Aaron, born via surrogate with ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith.
The couple have been been married for almost 14 years but are rarely photographed together, choosing to keep their relationship out of the spotlight.
So basically he’s old enough to be his child’s grandfather. Who cares if he’ll be dead before the kid reaches 30. There’s a reason that women go through menopause–it’s nature’s way of telling couples that it’s time to close up shop. Flipping nature the bird by using rent-a-womb isn’t the answer. Messing with the natural order of things rarely is a good thing. See Joan River’s face, Seth Brundel, and that drunken night with your cousin.
Sofia Vergara in a bikini in Mexico, because geriatrics don’t do it for me.
Another case of “just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean that you SHOULD.”
Besides–doesn’t matter about a kid who’s going to be raised by nannies anyway.
While I don’t necessarily agree with it. Your nature argument is nonsense – men have been genetically programmed to spread their seed since the year dot, women may. ‘close up shop’ so to speak but maybe this just evolution making the embryo have the best chane of reaching full term. In many respects these two have, by – as you so crassly put t – flipping nature the bird, achieved exactly what nature intended – they have reproduced.
Your article is badly written, coloured entirely by your point of view and therefore your argument is weakened to a point of being worthless. Your content is sensational drivel.
This is a shame – being a dad at my age is challenging, at 68 I can’t image how hard that would be, presuming he will be dad as
I would and not be hiring nurses the whole time.
I am a dad at 37 with a one and a bit year old (beautiful) daughter. I would love to have another child and finance allowing we will, but I am very fearful of the age I will be the time my daughter is 30 or my yet unborn child reaches that age.
Anyway – my two penneth. Did you get paid to write this article? If so the guy paying you needs to be sacked first and I sugges you change career to one that involves the need to construct solid sentences and arguments little or not at all.